Gov. Tony Evers along with advocates for the environment and for LGBTQ people as well as Democratic Party lawmakers hailed Tuesday’s state Supreme Court ruling that strips a Wisconsin legislative committee’s power to block state regulations.

Through this joint analysis, NPCA, ANPR, CPANP and PEER are holding the administration and Congress accountable to their duty to safeguard America’s most treasured places, demanding they immediately stop all further cuts, end the hiring freeze and fully restore all lost positions.

The Supreme Court often releases one or two big, splashy environmental decisions each term. Last year it was overruling a decades-old legal precedent called the “Chevron deference,” which allowed courts to defer to the expertise of a federal agency when interpreting ambiguous statutes.

Conversion therapy is the scientifically discredited practice of using therapy to "convert" LGBTQ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations.

The liberal-controlled court ruled that the Republican-controlled legislative committee overstepped in barring a ban on conversion therapy.